A 7-day warning strike has been declared by the Senior Staff Association of Nigerian Universities (SSANU) and the Non-Academic Staff Union (NASU) over their demand to pay four months withheld salaries of their members following the 2022 nationwide strike.
According to reports, the decision was part of the resolution of the joint action committee of the two unions after a meeting held in Akure at the weekend.
Mohammed Ibrahim, the president of SSANU, who made this known while reading the communiqué of the meeting to journalists in Abuja on Monday, noted that the decision to embark on the warning strike was taken as a last resort since several protest letters and other communications with the Federal Government did not result in the payment of the withheld salaries.
The development followed the recent nationwide protests by the Nigeria Labour Congress, NLC, over the current economic hardship, which has led to a high cost of living across the country.